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...advantages and disadvantages of the different professions in England, etc. The anecdotes and stories about distinguished persons, of which Mr. Arnold appears to possess an unfailing supply, are certainly the newest things in the book, and, perhaps, the best. They relate to men of all times and nations, and contain in themselves a vast store of curious, amusing, and suggestive literary information...
...have their attention brought to the chief points without loss of time and without unprofitable labor in a search after them. The essence of this is that a syllabus at a less cost of labor makes greater returns of knowledge, of the sort that model examination-books contain, than other methods...
...article bearing this title, and with the signature of an esteemed contributor to college literature, appeared in a late number of the Vox Humana, a musical journal published in Cambridgeport. The communication appears to us to contain just enough truth to give a color of plausibility to assertions which are not true...
...actually seeing and handling specimens of the subject described? A few years ago Professor Cooke, in giving a series of lectures on a course similar in some respects to this one, secured to the students the advantages of specimens. Can they not now be thus accommodated? Boylston Hall contains, or did contain, a collection which embraces just what is needed; can it not be used...
...residing at a distance, to give 'a course' of five or six lectures on chemistry, geology, or what not, and then put his name in the list of instructors. Such an array of names on the faculty is imposing in more senses than one." "Finally, a catalogue should not contain a view of the college buildings and grounds, as they are perhaps to be. We have seen on a frontispiece to the catalogue, or on a heading to letters, a stately edifice, situated in the midst of charming grounds, designated - University, the greater part of which we knew...